Legged Locomotion
Prescription of rhythmic patterns for legged locomotion
... nervous system (CNS) plays a critical role in the activities of all animals. In this work, a novel, macroscopic and model-independent approach is presented for creating different patterns of coupled neural oscillations ...
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Bridging Vision and Dynamic Legged Locomotion
... Legged robots have walked a long path to become the athletic machines that they are today. Very much like humans, in the early stages of legged systems the initial concern was to make them walk without ...
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Mechanics of a rapid running insect: two , four and six legged locomotion
... The horizontal line represents the animal's weight; B horizontal force; C vertical and D horizontal velocity calculated by integration of the force recordings; E vertical displacement ca[r] ...
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Recurrent neural network learning with an application to the control of legged locomotion
... stable locomotion for same biped robot model at different speed levels although robot platform has lots of nonlinearity in its equations of motion, see Appendix ...
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Exploring Passive Dynamics in Legged Locomotion
... of locomotion, predict energetic efficiency, and quantify first order stability of the resulting ...stiff legged systems require an instantaneous transfer of support, which means that for ...
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Principles of robot locomotion
... Six legged locomotion is the most popular legged locomotion concept because of the ability of static stable ...six legged robots legs have three degrees of freedom and six legs have to ...
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Passive Variable Compliance for Dynamic Legged Robots
... in legged locomotion include 1) a seemingly unlimited bandwidth to impacts compared to active compliance, 2) the capacity to store and return energy, and 3) reduced power requirements ...for legged ...
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Mechanics of locomotion in lizards
... during locomotion use these two basic ...lizard locomotion appears to be fundamentally different from mammalian locomotion because of the dominance of lateral trunk ...of legged lizards play a ...
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Many legged maneuverability: dynamics of turning in hexapods
... influencing locomotion (Ting et ...diverse legged animals can all be modeled by a simple spring-mass system (Blickhan and Full, 1987; Full, 1989; Full and Tu, 1990, ...eight- legged trotters maintain ...
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Kinematic design of crab like legged vehicles
... In principle, legged vehicle design could be treated as one large design optimisation problem. However, the sheer number of parameters and the difficulty of defining a sensible objective function make this ...
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Self-Manipulation and Dynamic Transitions for a Legged Robot
... Contrary to the oft encountered adage, locomotion is not the same as manipulation. To any reasonable level of precision, a legged robot is not moving the world with its feet (i.e. the “object” is Earth, 8 ...
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Energetics of Cockroach Locomotion
... 1970 have pointed out, large animals can approach a true M r u n : the cost of transport is high at low speeds, but as the rate of locomotion increases the cost decreases until a minimum[r] ...
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Studies In Animal Locomotion
... THE ROLE OF PROPRIOCEPTOR REFLEXES DURING AMBULATION The elicitation of an ambulatory rhythm in response to stretch was first demonstrated by Friedlander 1888 who showed that if the post[r] ...
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Locomotion, Liberty and Legislation
... In declaring the vagrancy statute to be unconstitutional, the United States District Court declared that the statute was strictly a catch-all statute failing in spe[r] ...
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Locomotion for crowd animation
... Figure 5.15.: The inaccuracies caused by the linear blending scheme illustrated on a small parametric space with four motion clips and the corrective step that alters the length interpol[r] ...
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Studies in Animal Locomotion
... The observed movements of the fish's body can be summarised as follows: 1 All parts of the fish's body which are in transverse motion have their leading surfaces directed backwards and t[r] ...
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STUDIES IN ANIMAL LOCOMOTION
... After amputation of the caudal fin, the movements carried out by the tail of a whiting relative to the head are those characteristic of a comparatively short flexible rod oscillating abo[r] ...
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STUDIES IN ANIMAL LOCOMOTION
... We can now draw the important conclusion that if the waves of contraction which pass down a fish's body appear to move backwards relative to a fixed point in the environment, the body of[r] ...
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Studies in Animal Locomotion
... rest is replaced by a laminar now when the model is exhibiting typically propulsive movements, but the evidence suggests that the water in the vicinity of the hind end of the body of a f[r] ...
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Studies in Animal Locomotion
... a spinal preparation has become fatigued no response occurs to tactile stimulation, but a typical resistance reflex can be elicited by pressing the tail against the edge of the tube by m[r] ...
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